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- From: johnr@bohra.cpg.oz.au (John Reid)
- Subject: Re: GST - double tax?
- Message-ID: <johnr.722228113@pongo.kowari.cpsg.com.au>
- Keywords: GST
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:55:13 GMT
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- miw@cc.uq.oz.au (Mark I. Williams) writes:
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- >bigm@cs.uq.oz.au (Michael Pilling (Big M is watching you)) writes:
-
- >>What they do not point out is that most OECD countries
- >>have a consumption tax because most OECD countries are a
- >>member of the EEC. One of the tenants of the EEC was to
- >>move towards one market, to make things comparable they
- >>had to have a standardised tax system. Hence
- >>implementing a consumption tax is a condition of joining
- >>the EEC.
-
- >It isn't. EC countries are perfectly free not to have a VAT. The
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- Sorry, but you are wrong. You are indeed required to have a VAT. The UK
- were obliged to introduce one when they joined, and they didn't like doing
- it, either.
-
- The VAT is required, because it is connected with membership levies for the
- EC in Brussels.
-
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- John Reid
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